[Trismanco]

New show at Choque Cultural one of our most exciting to date, features artists all over the world with one theme - Calligraphy...

choquecultural.com.br/blogs/caligrafia/





Artists include:

ANDREA BRANCO (São Paulo)
ATSUO (Kyoto/Japão)
BILLY ARGEL (São Paulo)
BINHO (São Paulo)
BRUCE BISHOP (Los Angeles)
BUIA (São Paulo)
CASPER (Osaka/Japão)
CHIVITZ (São Paulo)
CLAUDIO GIL (Rio de Janeiro)
CRAIG “KR” COSTELLO (New York)
DICE (Osaka/Japão)
DIMITRY OSKES (Russia)
DIONR (São Paulo/Porto Alegre)
DOES (Santo André)
EINE (Londres/UK)
FEFE TALAVERA (São Paulo / Madrid)
IVAN (São Paulo/Hungria)
JORGE GALVÃO (Curitiba)
JUN MATSUI (São Paulo/Japão)
LOOMIT (Munique/Alemanha)
LUCA BARCELLONA (Milão)
MAGOO FELIX (São Paulo)
MARKONE (São Paulo)
NOVE (São Paulo)
ONIO (Brasília)
PEDRO INOUE (São Paulo)
PIFO (São Paulo/Tókio)
PINGARILHO (Porto Alegre)
PRESTO (São Paulo)
HONZA (Praga/Republica Checa)
RUBENS MATUCK (São Paulo)
STEPHAN DOISTCHINOFF (São Paulo)
TONY DEMARCO (São Paulo)
TRAMPO (Porto Alegre)
TRISTAN EATON (New York)
WHIP (São Paulo)
and more...


Retna


Remed


L'Atlas



CHAZ BOJORQUEZ (LA)

[Feral Things]

I haven't previously seen much arabic graffiti and urban art mentioned on the forum, so I thought I'd share some of the work I like.

I've always thought that there's a clear parallel between graffiti and arabic art, insofar as that the letterform is the basis for both; with graffiti it comes back to the tag and with a lot of arabic art it's calligraphy.  I think arabic calligraphy is beautiful and rhythmic but, perhaps with the exception of some of Dizm's tracksides in the late '90s, very few writers seem to have picked up on its potential.  Anyway, here's a few artists I like...

Vincent Abadie Hafez aka Zepha - I think I've previously posted some of his work in the 'Artists You Might Not Know' thread but I love his merging of arabic and latin letters and the commentary about the relationship between arabic and european cultures.





Yazan - The translation of the title of the top piece is "Our Grandfathers invented the zero and their grandchildren became zeroes"






L'Atlas - Some people might have come across L'Atlas' work before.  He's pushed his letter forms more and more towards geometric matters to the extent that his recent work looks more like Brigit Riley's but I prefer the older stuff like this.  

[mrblast]

There is some beautiful graffiti on Salwa Road in Doha by Seed that was commissioned by Qatar Museum Authority. Keep meaning to take some pictures but haven't got round to it yet.

[Feral Things]

Jul 2, 2013 19:34:07 GMT 1 mrblast said:

There is some beautiful graffiti on Salwa Road in Doha by Seed that was commissioned by Qatar Museum Authority. Keep meaning to take some pictures but haven't got round to it yet.

If you do get some pictures of the eL Seed pieces I'd love to see them.  He's done some fantastic pieces with HestOne in Canada.

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Great stuff thanks for posting that, i like L'Atlas works, Prescriptionart had some on site.

[Damien]

Jul 2, 2013 19:26:36 GMT 1 Feral Things said:

I haven't previously seen much arabic graffiti and urban art mentioned on the forum, so I thought I'd share some of the work I like.

I've always thought that there's a clear parallel between graffiti and arabic art, insofar as that the letterform is the basis for both; with graffiti it comes back to the tag and with a lot of arabic art it's calligraphy.  I think arabic calligraphy is beautiful and rhythmic but, perhaps with the exception of some of Dizm's tracksides in the late '90s, very few writers seem to have picked up on its potential.  Anyway, here's a few artists I like...

Vincent Abadie Hafez aka Zepha - I think I've previously posted some of his work in the 'Artists You Might Not Know' thread but I love his merging of arabic and latin letters and the commentary about the relationship between arabic and european cultures.





Yazan - The translation of the title of the top piece is "Our Grandfathers invented the zero and their grandchildren became zeroes"






L'Atlas - Some people might have come across L'Atlas' work before.  He's pushed his letter forms more and more towards geometric matters to the extent that his recent work looks more like Brigit Riley's but I prefer the older stuff like this.  

zepha has a great website    www.abadiafez.com/

[philw]

how much does vincent's work go for? its nice!

[Deleted]

Excellent post feralthingy.

[Zippy]

Agreed. Thanks for posting.

[Coach]

Very cool thread. Thanks feral  
Especially like the work by Zepha. 

[Feral Things]

Glad you guys are enjoying.  There's some really interesting, beautiful and thoughtful work coming out of the Middle East, North Africa and France.  I'll post some other artists who I'm into in the future.

Jul 2, 2013 20:30:54 GMT 1 philw said:

how much does vincent's work go for? its nice!

He had a show at the David Bloch gallery about 18 months ago and I seem to remember the pieces were all quite large (160cm x 140cm) and that they were about 3,000€.  He's just had another show at the same gallery but I don't know what the prices were like; it looked stunning and there's a bunch of photos here.  I tried contacting him and a couple of other smaller, lower profile galleries where he's exhibited over the last few years to enquire about smaller pieces but never got any replies unfortunately.

[Stoko]

Great thread.
There's an app for the iPhone where you can upload Arabic/eastern typography based images and its corresponding website looks promising; only just starting out.
Am away from my phone and mac so can't remember the name of it though, deffo worth a look.

[LAZAKY]

Good thread feral! I love the geometric style of Arabic letters, do we have any "Arabic style" artist members over here?

[uglyyoungin]

Reminds me of Retna's work.

[Jameszee]

Really like some of that - thanks for sharing!

[Trismanco]

More news on this subject...

I wrote the forward to Mia Grondahl's book "Revolution Graffiti: Street Art of the New Egypt" which came out this April...

www.amazon.co.uk/Revolution-Graffiti-Street-Art-Egypt/dp/9774165764/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1


Its a very interesting read and very topical right now!

[Feral Things]

Very sad to see there's been a military coup in Egypt this evening.

If anyone is interested in helping to document the street art and graffiti since the revolution then there's crowdsourcing effort to help fund the remainder of the costs to get 'Walls of Freedom' published.  Here's information about the project here and this video:



Thanks for the information about the 'Revolution Graffiti' book, Tristan.  I'll check that out.

[Trismanco]

Thanks I hadn't heard of the "Walls of Freedom" book. It sounds like it will cover some similar ground as the Revolution Graffiti book just published which documents the graffiti explosion up to and after the revolution -

But "Walls of Freedom" seems to have plenty of voices involved, with lots of artists and essays... It's a really vital scene there right now - so the more books the better...

Also the crowd funding gifts look like they have gone to a lot of effort...

[Deleted]

Cheers for posting that Trismanco.

[Deleted]

Cracking change Wiz. I actually laughed out all loud like.
Cracking thread too.

[Feral Things]

'Walls That Speak' documentary from Al Jazeera


Julien Breton






Ashekman

[Poesia]

Great thread was turned on to the work of Zepha recently as well. I like the arabic inspired work alot. Maybe a thread for letterbased works is in order or calligraphic references. There are many that fit this style but are not arabic influenced. Such as



Defer and Big Sleeps



Aaron De la Cruz


Sowat

[Fatbuddha]

I saw this piece on Saturday:


Flickr link


Its not in the Middle East but East London. First piece of large scale Arabic street art I have seen.

[Feral Things]

Poesia - good idea for a thread, I'll get onto that! I first came across Sowat's work on your blog and really like what he's doing.

Fatbuddha - I never would have guessed that was Tizer's work, definitely not his usual style. Mohammed Ali/Aerosol Arabic has done a fair bit around the UK but I can't think of any others.

[Feral Things]

In the Arabic Graffiti thread Poesia suggested it would be interesting to have a thread about letterform art. Retna and José Parlá get plenty of mentions on here and Poesia posted some interesting work by Defer, Big Sleeps, Aaron De la Cruz and Sowat but I was wondering what else people had discovered out there?

I've always liked Niels 'Shoe' Meulman's work:

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Speebs will be on its way here then..

[ilmambo]

Luca Barcellona has some amazing calligraphy skills.
www.lucabarcellona.com/

[Deleted]

Jul 11, 2013 22:15:33 GMT 1 @mikeydread said:

Speebs will be on its way here then..

You know it...!

I need better photos though.

[Poesia]

Greg Lamarche
www.greglamarche.com/


All hand cut not Lasercut.

Jurne
www.science-ism.com/science/


Roids
www.facebook.com/pages/ROID-MSK/188621191160538


Blaqk
blaqk2.tumblr.com/


Max Ripo
www.ripovisuals.com/‎



Smash137
www.smash137.com/

Great thread Ill post more later this is really an important genre that gets swept under the rug.

[Deleted]

USUGROW has a lovely hand...